posted on 2024-02-08, 20:07authored byUS Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service
<p>This dataset measures food availability and access for 76 low- and middle-income countries. The dataset includes annual country-level data on area, yield, production, nonfood use, trade, and consumption for grains and root and tuber crops (combined as R&T in the documentation tables), food aid, total value of imports and exports, gross domestic product, and population compiled from a variety of sources.</p>
<p>This dataset is the basis for the International Food Security Assessment 2015-2025 released in June 2015. This annual ERS report projects food availability and access for 76 low- and middle-income countries over a 10-year period.</p>
<p>Countries (Spatial Description, continued): Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.</p>
<div><br>Resources in this dataset:</div><br><ul><li><p>Resource Title: CSV File for all years and all countries.</p> <p>File Name: gfa25.csv</p></li><br><li><p>Resource Title: International Food Security country data.</p> <p>File Name: GrainDemandProduction.xlsx</p><p>Resource Description: Excel files of individual country data. Please note that these files provide the data in a different layout from the CSV file. This version of the data files was updated 9-2-2021
More up-to-date files may be found at: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/international-food-security.aspx</p></li></ul>
Analysis of food availability, access, and security for 76 low-and middle-income countries; production of the ERS International Food Security Assessment 2015-2025 report; provide a snapshot of each country’s grain and root and tuber sectors and economic indicators.
Use limitations
FAO receives data, of varying quality, from a wide range of countries. Much of the World Bank data included in the dataset comes from the statistical systems of World Bank member countries, and the quality of global data depends on how well these national systems perform. See http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/international-food-security/documentation.aspx#about
Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Benin, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Dominican Republic,
ISO Topic Category
economy
farming
health
society
National Agricultural Library Thesaurus terms
food grains; surveys
OMB Bureau Code
005:13 - Economic Research Service
Pending citation
No
Public Access Level
Public
Preferred dataset citation
US Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service (2016). International Food Security. USDA Economic Research Service. https://doi.org/10.15482/USDA.ADC/1299294